Chapter 477

When goodrian stood on a high hill and watched his troops march on the vast Ukrainian plain, he knew why the head of state did not agree with the strategic plan of attacking the Soviet Union proposed by the general staff of the national defense forces.

Hundreds of tanks once made goodrian feel spectacular. With cars, armored vehicles, command vehicles and other logistic vehicles, his first Armored Division was a giant in France.

But now, between the sky and the earth, these vehicles meander along the road, which is as small as an earthworm compared with the magnificence of nature. Tens of thousands of troops scattered on the plain and could not be found in an instant. Originally, he thought that his troops could control many areas, but now it seems that his troops were scattered just to control the most basic defensive areas.

At the beginning, goodrian was mobilizing his troops with battalion as the unit. Later, because the front line was too long and the terrain was too large, he was forced to fight with company as the basic unit. Later, only one platoon or class of troops were attacking. This was a very distressing thing for a regiment commander.

The 9th mechanized infantry army has caught up with goodrian. The 3rd SS Panzer Division and the 9th motorized infantry division have also handed over their defense lines to the German infantry behind them, catching up with the attack pace of the 1st panzer division. This has made goodrian have more troops to use. However, after these troops are sent to various attack points, goodrian's army will be able to use more troops, I still find that they are too small for this land.

The fighting was very strange. The German offensive forces were not large in scale. Only about 200000 people were involved in the first counterattack, and then these forces were strengthened to 450000. However, compared with the Soviet forces they had to deal with, this offensive force was not huge in any way.

In another huge encirclement of 300000 German troops, the Soviets had about 600000 troops. However, due to the lack of heavy weapons and air support, these troops were unable to break through the sparse German defense line.

On the battlefield, 1000 Soviet Red Army soldiers can be seen everywhere, holding their hands high and surrendering to 100 German soldiers. It was also seen everywhere that more than 20 German soldiers were attacking thousands of Soviet Red Army soldiers with guns.

A field photographer photographed the process of the German army attacking the village at that time: two German machine gunners set up their own machine gun positions behind a fence at the entrance of the village, and then the machine gun positions began to pour ammunition. More than a dozen German troops circled and rushed into the village. About ten minutes later, they drove out about 300 Red Army soldiers from the village, These people looked hungry for a long time and raised their hands in fear to ask the German army to give them something to eat.

Manstein, as the German chief of staff on the eastern front, drew up a combat plan called "shining" under the instruction of akkado. This combat plan allowed the German army after operation zhenhunqu to advance at the fastest speed, occupied Ukraine and Belarus before the Soviet Red Army reacted, and completely annihilated all the field troops on the eastern front of the Soviet army.

Now this "shining" is shining enough. The German army encircled most of the mobile forces of the Soviet Union on the eighth day after the battle started. Now, excluding the northern line troops led by Timoshenko, they are still complete, and the Soviet Red Army in other areas has fallen into complete collapse.

A German reconnaissance unit appeared at the edge of a small town on this morning. Two German soldiers on motorcycles stopped in the wheat field not far away. A four-wheel armored reconnaissance vehicle was bolder. It crossed the wheat field and stopped on the street of the town. Two German grenadiers on the vehicle jumped out of the armored vehicle, Bending against the wall, they made their way to the first intersection after they entered the town.

Several Ukrainian women with scarves on their heads, carrying baskets, saw the German army breaking into their town, so they said something to the German army in a hasty tone. The two German grenadiers could not understand these people's words, so they could only lean against the wall and watch the chattering foreign women warily.

Soon, the roar of the motorcycle engine attracted the attention of the local people. A German motorcycle with a "sidecar" drove into the town. A German army on the motorcycle yelled to the two German grenadiers who arrived first: "it seems that there are no Soviet soldiers around here."

"What are they talking about?" A German soldier, nervously armed with a gun, asked his companion.

"My Russian is not very good either." The German soldiers with glasses on their motorcycles helplessly spread their hands: "I just recognized that they were talking about the Russian, leave, eat these words."

"They're going to invite us to dinner?" A German soldier split his mouth and laughed, saying the most unlikely guess: "I think if they are inviting us to dinner, I will give all the cigarettes to the platoon leader."

"I'm afraid you can't keep your cigarettes." A thin man in Suspenders pushed aside some Ukrainian women and came to the German soldiers. He reached out to shake hands with them. "Hello, my name is politikovsky. I'm a middle school teacher here. I can speak German."

"Hello, what are these girls talking about?" The head of the German veterans carrying rifles, pointing to the Ukrainian women asked.

"They said thank you for coming here and saving them from the devil. They are willing to cook dinner for you, and they say there are no more Soviet soldiers here, and they withdrew this morning. " The middle school teacher, whose name is "whatsky", replied The young German soldier was speechless when he thought that he had said to send cigarettes just now because of his cheap mouth“ That... What? Ski... "The German veteran felt very embarrassed because he didn't remember each other's name, so he continued to ask:" are you sure there are no Soviet soldiers here? "“ Yes, sir, Russians are not welcome here, so you can rest assured. " What? What? Si nodded: "they left the direction is due east, go in a hurry."“ You two, go to the east to guard. If you find something, fire a warning gun immediately. " The veteran nodded and began to arrange the task: "armored vehicles are waiting in the south of the town. The rest of the people continue to search forward, expand the scope of the search to about 5 kilometers, and start to move. " The two soldiers who didn't get off the motorcycle nodded, started the motorcycle and left the intersection. The two soldiers began to move in the predetermined direction against the wall. On the street they saw 122mm antiaircraft guns bombed by the Soviets themselves, as well as several abandoned military vehicles. Soon the German vanguard came to the town abandoned by the Soviets. Two leopard tanks passed through the town, followed by about 500 fully armed grenadiers, cars and armored vehicles. The town was filled with huge flags one after another. Then the soldiers began to set up radio antennas on the roof of the mayor's office in the middle of the town. After the grenadiers searched the houses where the citizens lived, they stopped disturbing the residents. As soon as some open top cars were driven into the town, the appearance of a German official in a straight military uniform made the local Ukrainian girls feel more favorable. As time went by, more and more German officers arrived, and their ranks became higher and higher. Until general Liszt stepped out of the car, the local people knew that this place had been used as a temporary front headquarters by the German E group army. Politikovsky and two beautiful Ukrainian girls were selected as representatives of the local people and were cordially met by general Liszt. Several people talked about the local customs enthusiastically. Politikovsky also pointed to a beautiful Ukrainian girl and introduced the local clothing features and customs. When Liszt assured them that the German army would collect only one tenth of this year's crop as a tax, the screams of Ukrainian girls could be heard as far as their mouths were covered. Then the town was boiling because the Germans promised to return the Ukrainian prisoners to the local people. As long as the prisoners worked in Poland's "construction brigade" for a year, they could safely return to their hometown. People sang and danced to celebrate the arrival of the German army, and the identity of the "German occupation army" began to sublimate from this moment to more than a little "German liberator". More than a dozen men hiding in the wheat fields were persuaded by politikovsky to return to the town. As a result, the Germans did not mean to embarrass them. Even a young man in Soviet uniform was granted amnesty by Liszt. So the German people once again jumped from "liberators" to "people sent by God to liberate Ukraine". Thanks to the Germans for driving away the "Soviet demons" everywhere, the heroic Ukrainians even offered 100 clean rooms for the German army, saying that they would not let the officers of the group army sleep in the tents around the town. This is the first Ukrainian town to welcome the German troops. Of course, it has attracted the attention of all sides. Marshal brauchich was once again deterred by the farsightedness of the head of state akado, because akado predicted that the German attack would be welcomed by the local people of Ukraine when he drew up his plan. Then, in the name of the General Staff Headquarters of the army, the German army issued the temporary laws and regulations of the occupying forces, prohibiting the German army from disturbing the lives of the local people. Troops at all levels must strictly implement this regulation and exercise gentlemanly restraint over friendly local Ukrainian residents. In fact, the guerrillas that the German army worried about and the resistance and hatred did not appear. On the contrary, more Ukrainians did not have any special feelings for the arrival of the Germans. They watched numbly as the German motorcade passed in front of them, neither cheering nor hatred.